Improvement in grain-cradles



G. E. GLOW. GRAIN-GRADLES.

PatentedAug.14,1877.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. GLOW, OF SEYMOUR, INDIANA.

' IMPROVEMENT IN GRAlN-CRADLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 194.13 1, dated August 14, 1877,- application filed May 17, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. OLoW, of Seymour, in the county of Jackson and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain Cradles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The invention relates to an adjustable socket for the finger-post of a cradle, the same being constructed and arranged as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of a cradle with my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a cross-section. Fig. 3is a detail view.

The scythe A may be secured to the snath B in the usual way-that is to say, by a wedge and sliding loop, or by means of a loop, bolt, and nut. The metal web or plate 0, on which the shank of the scythe A rests, is extended as at- O, beyond the end of the snath, and provided with a socket, D, to receive the end ,of the post E, to which the fingers F of the cradle are attached. This socket is pivoted, and its headed shank is inserted and held in a slotted clip, a, which forms the end of the extension 0, and is cut away on the lower side.

them through in one direction or the other, as

will be readily understood. The principal object of detaching the head is to adapt the eradle to be shipped in compact form.

The described adjustment and detachment may be effected easily and quickly.

What I claim is- 1. In combination with the slotted web-extension, the adjustable socket, as shown and described.

2. The combination of the slotted web-extension, cut away on one side, as shown, and the socket having a T-shaped shank, whereby the socket may be detached, as-specified.

E. B. (Moss,

F. M. SwoPE. 

